- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:30:07 -0600
- To: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@ACM.org>, User Agent Guidelines Emailing List <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
In response to Harvey related the read/write access to the DOM acting as an authoring tool: The limitations of the DOM and UA guidelines related to authoring documents: 1. Current DOM specifications do not represent the entire document, future versions may 2. DOM currently does not have features to save the document, even if it is complete representation is available 3. We have no requirements in the UA guidelines to allow the user to change content, only to configure rendering of content and interact with active elements. Jon At 06:28 PM 1/10/00 -0500, Harvey Bingham wrote: >Checkpoint 5.1 Provide programmatic read and write ?write -- doesn't this >require that every user agent become an authoring tool? access to content, >attribute values, and structure by conforming to W3C Document Object Model >specifications. > >[The DOM, at least for an XML application with a DTD, represents a valid >document. If the AT needn't parse the DOM, that programmatic write can >destroy the DOM structure, or violate XML validity restrictions. > >For example, ID values must be unique to a document, so all ID values must >be known or at least found and checked before another unique one could be >generated.] > >Regards/Harvey Bingham Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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